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Dr Teri Merlyn :

20 Jul 2013 9:02:54am

I am so grateful to Paul for his great passion and his work to bring what he learns to us through his wonderful art. I wish all those fools who think Climate Change a politically correct ideology, as did the current presenter of RN's own program, Counterpoint, be obliged to attend Paul Nicklen's talks and buy his books. The image of dead polar bears floating off the diminishing ice sheet should haunt their dreams as it will now mine. To all those foolish people who think humans have a right to consume krill, please be aware that we are robbing a whole raft of creatures of their only food source at the same time as we are putting that source at risk and destroying their habitat. Please stop buying those Krill-based supplements. And be aware of the accumulating plastic refuse that breaks down and mimics krill, so please-please-please avoid plastic wherever possible and be careful in your disposal habits.

Elderwoman :

Grant Nowell :

20 Jul 2013 9:57:16am

Thankyou for the engaging interview with photographer Paul, some stunning pictures of some very potentially scary animals.I'm a professional snapper so I can appreciate these extraordinary images. In 1996 I shot Alexander Downer in fishnets I thought that was a bit scary but that pales into insignificance compared with the drama in Paul's pictures.Thanks for the interview on the Middle East too

Robyn O'Bryan :

20 Jul 2013 10:26:02am

Thank you so much for the fascinating interview with Paul Nicklin - Did everyone else know of the biology "garden" under the sea ice and the repercussions of our neglect of the actions needed to combat climate change.? I certainly didn't. Bye, and thank you again.

Stephanie :

20 Jul 2013 11:42:38am

One of the best interviews I've heard on this program.

In 1972, a small group of people including Edward Goldsmith addressed global ecological breakdown, and drew up a document, based on a new philosophy of life. It criticized the industrial way of life which embraces continuous expansion and growth economics.

Based on this document, a new two-monthly magazine called "The Ecologist" was launched, edited by Edward Goldsmith, who provided analysis of the world wide breakdown of ecosystems, global warming and the melting of polar ice,such as raised By Paul Nicklen on this segment.

An article in "The Ecologist" Vol.21, No.4, July/August 1991 by Patrick McCully investigates how the:

...concealment of historical responsibilities is of course not only relevant to the North-South divide but also hides the large differences in historical emissions between countries within these two broad categories...

The planet disintegrates for the sake of a minority who live like kings.

Nerida :

20 Jul 2013 7:58:41pm

The term "fiddling while Rome burns" comes to mind when I hear what people like Paul are trying to alert us to. While we shop and consume the ice melts and we loose the things that money can not buy. Like the planetary ecosystem we rely on.

GMPolya :

According to Professor Peter Wadhams (Professor of Oceans Physics, Cambridge University, UK) in relation to Arctic summer sea ice (2012): "It is truly the case that it will be all gone by 2015. The consequences are enormous and represent a huge boost to global warming" (Google "Are we doomed?" and scroll down to Wadhams).

Climate criminal Australia is a disproportionate contributor to this disaster as a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution with 25 tonnes CO2-e per person per year (Domestic GHG pollution) and 74 tonnes CO2-e per person per year (Domestic plus Exported GHG pollution) (see section G, "2011 climate change course").

Both the Australian Climate Commission and the WBGU that advises the German Government estimate that the world can emit no more than 600 billion tonnes of CO2 between 2010 and zero emissions in 2050 if it is to have a 75% chance of avoiding a catstrophic 2C temperature rise. Indeed the Australian Climate Commission recently estimated that at current rates of GHG pollution we have only 16 years left (using bleaker primary estimates I estimate only 5 years left to act; Google "Doha climate change inaction. Only 5 years left to act"). Indeed the climate criminal Lib-Labs have the same policy of a derisory "5% off 2000 GHG pollution by 2020" coupled with unlimited coal, gas and iron ore exports that will see Australia exceed the whole world's terminal GHG pollution budget by a factor of three (3) (Google "ABC censorship % malreportage" and scroll down to Climate Commission). Sensible, informed people who care for their children will vote 1 Green.